Who Was Alive

Were Napoleon and André-Marie Ampère alive at the same time?

Yes. Napoleon and André-Marie Ampère were alive at the same time for 46 years, from 1775 to 1821.

Napoleon was 5 when André-Marie Ampère was born.

André-Marie Ampère was 46 when Napoleon died, aged 51.

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

Born 15 August 1769 · died 5 May 1821, aged 51

André-Marie Ampère

French physicist and mathematician

Born 20 January 1775 · died 10 June 1836, aged 61

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Napoleon
  4. André-Marie Ampère
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Leo Tolstoy
Napoleon and André-Marie Ampère in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.